Logic analyzer price/spec war heats up. (HP counters Tektronix' announcement with 16555A and 16500B products) (Product Announcement)

EDN, April, 1994 by Strassberg, Dan

It's been less than a month since the last big logic-analyzer announcement. That one came from Tektronix. As so often happens when one of the test-and-measurement giants announces a new product, its archrival counters with a product intended to provide better specs at a lower price. You shouldn't be surprised, then, that Hewlett-Packard has announced a logic-analyzer plug-in that does 500-MHz timing analysis and 125-MHz state analysis and includes 1M frame of memory. The $13,500, 68-channel 16555A plugs into the 16500B logic-analysis system, whose $8800 mainframe accommodates five plug-ins with synchronized timebases (10 with an expansion chassis). A 204-channel configuration (including three 16555As) costs $49,300. By contrast, Tektronix's TLA 520 offers 400-MHz...

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